Pepple v. Partee

We are of the opinion that, excluding all incompetent evidence, there remains enough to sustain the findings of fact by the Chancellor and to support the decree under the law of the case as laid down on the former appeal, Partee v. Pepple, 197 Miss. 486, 20 So. (2d) 73. We think, however, that the finding that the Pepples knew at the time they made the original contract of sale with May that Partee, the agent, was the party who had procured May as purchaser is not sufficiently sustained by the competent evidence, and this raises the question, necessarily, whether the want of that knowledge on…